Natchez — Hattie Pearl Nunnery and Melanie Hubbs will present information about the Amite County Bicentennial at the monthly meeting of the Natchez Historical Society at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

The meeting will be at 108 S. Commerce St. Social time with refreshments begins at 6:30 p.m.

Nunnery, the chairman of the Amite County and Liberty Bicentennial Committee, is a descendent of pioneer Amite County families. She is the daughter of Reece and Virginia Kinabrew Nunnery. She graduated from Liberty High School.

Nunnery and Hubbs will be in costume and will have books for sale.

The author of Mississippi’s first constitution was Amite county resident Dr. William David Lattimore; the Amite County courthouse is the oldest in continuous use in Mississippi, built primarily with slave labor at a cost of approximately $4,000 in 1840; Ebenezer Baptist Church, located south of Liberty and founded in 1806, is the oldest Baptist church in Mississippi; and Gail Borden, founder of Borden Company, came to Amite County in 1801 as a school teacher and invented his formula for condensed milk, according to exerpts from “Interesting Facts About Liberty/Amite County” by the Amite County Historical and Genealogical Society in Liberty

For more information go to amitecounty200.com.